#mangroves News
The environmental watchdog launches its first local group outside of Metro Manila, which aims to protect conservation in the province that is home to coastal resources like mangroves and the endangered Irrawady dolphins.
China's dam-building on the Mekong River is altering water flows and holding back sediment, affecting millions living downstream.
Indonesia’s plan to build its new capital city on an expiring logging concession in eastern Borneo has sparked concerns among environmental and human rights observers about the larger eco-social impacts to the rest of the island.
Carbon & Climate
Mangroves protect coastal communities, but accountability in governance is need of the hour: experts
Mangroves can potentially store up to 10 times more carbon per hectare than terrestrial forests. Mapping and quantifying human-driven stress factors can help achieve accountability, notes experts.
Policy & Finance
'Auction' of islands in Indonesian marine sanctuary blocked
#mangroves Opinion
Policy & Finance
Eco-economic development amid COP15
The World Bank Group is working across many fronts to help countries recognise both the value of nature and the risks that would follow from losing it.
Policy & Finance
What the COP15 biodiversity conference must do
Concrete plans and financing will be needed. The COP27 and COP15 summits can also be combined, writes former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. Climate change and biodiversity loss must be addressed in tandem.
Mounting marine pollution is choking the world’s oceans and rivers, especially in Southeast Asia — and it’ll only get worse unless something changes.
Policy & Finance
No net zero without nature
Out of 148 major companies, only nine are making strong progress to end deforestation. The private sector must help to end biodiversity loss before 2030, because businesses cannot function without nature, write Nigel Topping and Mahmoud Mohieldin.
Food & Agriculture
Nature can't wait
Policy & Finance
Closing the nature-finance gap
Food & Agriculture
The case for a food systems stability board
